Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965 / Davis W. Houck, David E. Dixon, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Houck, Davis W.

Dixon, David E.

Series:

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 1.

Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Rhetoric--Political aspects.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Race relations.

United States.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights movements.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century--Sources.

Civil rights.

Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity--History--20th century--Sources.

Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century--Sources.

Rhetoric.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

Sermons, American.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xvi, 1002 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2006]

Summary:

Building upon the critically acclaimed first volume, volume 2 of Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon's Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 is a recovery project of enormous proportions. Houck and Dixon have again combed church archives, government documents, university libraries, and private collections in pursuit of new voices in the civil rights movement. Their latest volume presents fifty new speeches and sermons delivered by both famed leaders and little-known civil rights activists, on national stages and in private gatherings. The texts carry novel insights into the ways in which individuals and communities utilized religious rhetoric to upset the racial status quo in divided America during the civil rights era. Houck and Dixon's work illustrates again how a movement so prominent in historical scholarship still has much to teach us. Book jacket.

Contents:

Emancipation Day address / Mordecai Johnson

A cool head and a warm heart / Charles P. Bowles

The Supreme Court decision / A. Powell Davies

Speech to Council of Christian Relations / Frank P. Graham

Full integration

America's newest challenge / Mary McLeod Bethune

The church amidst ethnic and racial tensions / Benjamin E. Mays

The disturbing Christ / J. R. Brokhoff

The challenge of integration / William Lloyd Imes

Speech to Calvary Christian Church / Sarah Patton Boyle

Speech to Covington Ministerial Association / Sarah Patton Boyle

Abraham then, and now / William Lloyd Imes

Toward world brotherhood / James Hudson

Spiritual rearmament / Mary McLeod Bethune

Address at memorial meeting for Rev. George W. Lee / Roy Wilkins

Do we still need do-gooders? / Albert D'Orlando

Terror reigns in Mississippi / T. R. M. Howard

I want you to know what they did to my boy / Mamie Till-Bradley

I'm glad I was born white / Robbins Ralph

Feed my sheep / Sarah Patton Boyle

One Hundred Percent Wrong Club / Branch Rickey

Drifting is dangerous / Paul N. Carnes

A lesson on tolerance / J. R. Brokhoff

A cigarette for Johnnie Birchfield / Horace Mann Bond

Where to look for victory / James Hudson

Mississippi's challenge in this grave hour / T. R. M. Howard

Speech to National Baptist Convention, Denver / Roy Wilkins

Christians and desegregation / D. Perry Ginn

The South, collectively, is a patient most ill / P. D. East

The role of the church / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Report of the interracial leadership conference / James A. Pike

Address / Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom / Adam Clayton Powell

Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom / A. Philip Randolph

A faith for difficult and critical times / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Address to the 48th annual NAACP convention / Channing H. Tobias

Walk to freedom / Shad Polier

The crucial test of Christian citizenship / Marion A. Boggs

The meaning of Little Rock / A. Powell Davies

Integration and public morals / Marion A. Wright

The ministry of reconciliation / James R. Bullock

Life's inevitables : three things you cannot stop / J. R. Brokhoff

Meeting of the Fair Share Organization / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

A fresh look at race relations / Chester Bowles

Address at the 50th anniversary of the NAACP

The ministry of reconciliation / Colbert S. Cartwright

Of this gospel I was made a minister / Carlos E. Martin

Christianity and racial tensions / Edward Hughes Pruden

To the people of Florida on race relations / LeRoy Collins

Speech at Shaw University / James Lawson

Segregation and the Ten Commandments / Everett Tilson

Challenge to overcome / Benjamin E. Mays

Students "standing up" for the American dream / Frank P. Graham

Behaving like ordinary men / Edler Garnet Hawkins

Witnessing / Will D. Campbell

Speech to the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith / LeRoy Collins

This I believe / Haywood N. Hill

Some stern words of Jesus / Colbert S. Cartwright

Mistakes I have made in race relations / William O. Byrd

The Christian way in race relations / Robert J. McCracken

The untold story of the sit-ins / Duncan Howlett

Trying to get home without Jesus / Ralph David Abernathy

The minister as citizen / Marion A. Wright

Who speaks for the South? / James McBride Dabbs

Hidden persuaders in human relations / Heslip "Happy" Lee

Call for reason / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Not race but grace / Robert H. Walkup

Speech at the University of Mississippi / Robert H. Walkup

Love disqualified / Charles L. Stanford, Jr.

Paranoia, guilt, and atonement / Duncan M. Gray, Jr.

The worship God wants / George A. Chauncey

The moving finger writes in Mississippi / James McBride Dabbs

To define our love / James McBride Dabbs

Reflections on the death of a child / Marion King

The Christian faith and race / J. Claude Evans

Speech at a church and race relations conference / James A. Pike

This is the mood and this is the time / Edler Garnet Hawkins

Broadcast on KPFA, Los Angeles, May 28, 1963 / Wyatt Tee Walker

The testing of our faith / J. V. Cosby Summerell

Speech at the Flamingo Club / James Bevel

Untitled sermon / Bruce William Klunder

Law and order and Christian duty / Eugene Carson Blake

On loving one's neighbor as oneself / Francis Gerald Ensley

Late we come / Eugene Carson Blake

Invocation / Patrick O'Boyle

Speech at the march on Washington / John Lewis

Who is guilty in Birmingham? / Charles Morgan Jr.

Some important differences / George H. Woodard

Speech at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church / Dick Gregory

Let's face the world / Arthur E. Shelton

Golgotha 1964 / Frank T. Wilson

Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally / Dave Dennis

A modern day Moses / Dave Dennis

Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally / Aaron Henry

The myth, the movement / James McBride Dabbs

The two way barrier / Duncan Howlett

As if in a foreign country / David G. Colwell

Division of home missions / Robert W. Spike

Danville Christian Progressive Association / Lawrence Campbell

Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally / Ella Josephine Baker

A Methodist pastor and race relations / Edward W. Harris

Countdown on human worth / L. Wilson Kilgore

Report from the South / Duncan Howlett

Christian response to racial revolution / James McBride Dabbs

Deep are the roots / Mildred Bell Johnson

Love and race relations / Ralph David Abernathy

The national civil rights crises / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Some points / Thomas Merton

Address to the 55th annual NAACP convention / Robert W. Spike

The long, hot summer / Albert D'Orlando

Address at Medgar Evers memorial service / Fred L. Shuttlesworth

Sermon at Deering Community Church / Robert W. Spike

Funeral service for James Chaney / Dave Dennis and Edwin King

Untitled speech / Fannie Lou Hamer

Moral dimensions / Theodore M. Hesburgh

Civil rights and Christian duties / Robert J. McCracken

The misfits / Kelly Miller Smith

Religious panel, February 20, 1965 / Civil Rights Hearings

Jews, justice and liberalism / Charles F. Wittenstein

Report from Alabama and Mississippi / Duncan Howlett

In memoriam : James Reeb / Albert D'Orlando

Eulogy at memorial service for James Reeb / Roy Wilkins

To be a man / Robert A. Reed

The moral stature of the civil rights movement / Duncan Howlett

Address / Morris B. Abram

Untitled paper read posthumously / Jonathan Daniels

Dear friends in Christ / Daniel Berrigan

A Christian movement in a revolutionary age / Ralph David Abernathy

Trek toward the dawn / Kelly Miller Smith

Some comments on race hate / Gardner C. Taylor

Civil rights from a Christian point of view / Theodore Parker Ferris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 925-970) and index.

ISBN:

1932792546

OCLC:

70258853

Publisher Number:

9781932792546